Audio device J280 fails to work

[Joachim Frieben_1]

After a fresh install of HP-UX 11.00 w/HWE1100 and QPK1100 as of 03/02 on an HP J280 workstation, audio support is missing. When I query the device list, the entry line "Built-in audio" simply shows a question mark "?" for the driver status. Any known issues for this particular model? On a wide variety of other HP-UX workstation, this used to work right away.
Thanks a lot in advance!

[Alex Glennie]

Is the Audio HW recognized properly by the kernel?Run 'ioscan -fnCaudio' and post the output.

I know of now known issues wrt this model ....

is rpcd / dced running ?

it may also be woth while running : say /opt/audio/bin/send_sound and seeing if that reports back any errors or /opt/audio/bin/Aserver -f ? so we have something to go on .....

lastly the latest audio patch = PHKL_26031

I guess there's a chance this could be a H/w problem ...does dmesg report anything ?

[S.K. Chan]

Check if you have this patch installed ..

Patch Name: PHKL_26031
Patch Description: s700_800 11.00 New audio h/w support + cumulative fixes

If not, install it.

[Joachim Frieben_1]

Hi Alex,
I have tried out your suggestions with the following result:

1. "/usr/sbin/ioscan -fnCaudio" does not yield anything.
2. "/opt/audio/bin/Aserver -f" yields "failed to open /dev/audioIL - Aserver exiting" (btw, the device /dev/audioIL is missing).
3. "/opt/audio/bin/send_sound ..." yields "Unable to open audio server, AOpenAudio returns NULL, status: 18, Exiting...".

After all, quite logical, as the device is not supported by the kernel (either forgotten to install the kernel support or hardware flaw).

4. Finally, "dmesg" exhibits the error message "audio_attach(): audio configuration failed init of hardware not successful. id=7b and my_isc=c0". In fact, I had forgotten to add that already at boot time, the audio server daemon start-up script displayed "failed".

[John Carr_2]

Hi

I have seen this with a B class and I resolved it simply by doing

insf -e

and for this postie.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xe5a5ba808b46d611abda0090277a778c,00.html

cheers
John.

[Joachim Frieben_1]

Unfortunately, none of the above recommendations has lead to any tangible result. Executing "ioscan -fnCaudio" does not produce any output at all.
However, just executing "ioscan" produces the following message:

H/W Path Class Description
==============================================
8/12/1 unknown Built-in Audio

I have to add that during the boot-up procedure the error message "id=7B my_isc=c0" and "init of hardware not successful" was issued. After all, it may indeed be a hardware flaw. Thank you guys!